GOOGLE has agreed to acquire in-game advertising company Adscape Media for $US23 million ($29 million), according to technology site Red Herring, which cited sources familiar with the matter.
A Google spokesman declined to comment, saying the company’s policy is not to respond to “rumour or speculation”. Video game industry analysts said the acquisition could give a [...]

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Eat your heart out, Dyson Electrolux has done one better than your “properly” working vacuum cleaner with these floor-cleaning shoes. Just slip ‘em on when it’s time to clean the house and they’ll suck up dirt from the floor as you shimmy from room to room. I can see neat freaks wearing them all day, [...]

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Though it may seem a little too much like a one of those calculator watches for some, SMS Technology Australia’s upcoming M300 watch promises to be a mobile phone on your wrist. I4U News reports it’ll see the light of day in late March for around $500.
The M300 watch should be able to work with [...]

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TO PLAY’S THE THING
The big story in computer games this year was HOW TO BLOW A HUGE LEAD, by Sony. Its PlayStation 2 was the champ in the last round of the console wars. This time Sony bet on a chip called the Cell and a disc format called Blu-ray. They’re probably awesome, but how [...]

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Are we seeing the end of the SUV era and the start of the tiny, hyper-efficient vehicle era? I’m not sure, but there sure are a lot of people out there trying to get strange-looking yet efficient vehicles onto our highways.
This VentureOne is a three-wheeled vehicle that comes in both hybrid and all-electric flavors. The [...]

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EA has confirmed the story MegaGames brought you yesterday and has made it official, Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is on its way and we have the details to prove it.Electronic Arts announced that Command & Conquer, the franchise that put the Real-time Strategy (RTS) genre on the map, is returning in full force [...]

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These two photos, taken in the late 1980s, show that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is growing thicker.

Construction Crane Buried in Ice Sheet
* In the mid 1960s, ITT built a power transmission line in Antarctica. The transmission towers stood 115 feet tall.
* As you can see in these photos, all but the top 30 feet of [...]

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Well, after acquiring YouTube, rumors are that Google’s next target is Wikipedia. In past all information related portals attraced Google. There is a long list:
Deja News now Google Groups
Outride.net
Google documents (Forgot former name)
Applied Semantics - now Google used it for its AdSense/AdWords services
Kaltix.com - Kaltix now Google Personalized Search.
Blogger - Blogger was the [...]

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Hackers launched an attack Tuesday on at least three of the 13 root systems dedicated to DNS, or domain name system, that help to resolve alphanumeric domain names to their specific IP addresses.
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Check out this cool site ThinkFree Online. You can use Microsoft Word on a site. You can creat, save and share your docs.

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